Religion Quotes

"There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein

"If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him."
-Voltaire

"If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."
-Albert Einstein

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
-Albert Einstein

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."
-Mark Twain

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-Seneca

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
-Aldous Huxley

"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed."
-William Cobbett

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."
-Matthew Arnold

"The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful."
-Randy K. Milholland

"Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science."
-Henri Bergson

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
-John Adams

"Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable."
-Gore Vidal

"Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history."
-James Madison

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
-The Dalai Lama

"It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!"
-Patrick Henry

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
-Eric Hoffer

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
-Sigmund Freud

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."
-Matthew Henry

"I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid."
-Joan of Arc